W.L. Clement, SCS, prepares to check out newly constructed stream channel which was a part of a farm conservation plan. Length of channel is seven hundred and fifty fett long, two feet deep, with a ten foot bottom; the side slopes at a two to one angle.

Farm owner

Knox, Carl

Contextual note

One in a series of photographs of agricultural activities in Cannon County, TN that were taken by W.L. Clement, District Conservationist for the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, and his assistants between the mid-1940s and mid-1970s.

People in Photograph

W. L. Clement

Collection Name

Photographs of W.L. Clement, U.S. Soil Conservation Service

ID Number

T-2225-7

Subject-LCSH

Stream channelization;

Subject-TGM

Photographic prints;

Geographic Location

Cannon County (Tenn.)

Community Name

Woodbury;

Soil Conservation District or Watershed

TN-SCD-19; Stones River

Type

Image

Format

jpeg

Genre

Photograph

Extent

Approx. 4" x 4.5"

Source file

T22257_625f_pictureman

Copyright status

Publication of the United States government. Not copyrighted

Conditions for use

May be freely reproduced. Please credit the original photograph to: United States Soil Conservation Service. Credit the source of the digital item to: Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University.

Digital Publisher

Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University